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GPS-to-GO Takes on Garmin
Donald A. PillittereCase IVEY-9B09A027-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyGPS-to-GO is a successful company that has a wealth of brilliant researchers and scientists who have created advanced global positioning systems (GPSs) for complex air-traffic control and logistics systems. Now, the vision of one of the up and coming managers is to use GPS-to-GO's knowledge to dominate the consumer market with premium-priced and feature-rich GPS units. Even though GPS-to-GO is far ahead in terms of GPS technology, the consumer ma...Starting at €8.20
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Aqueduct Medical
Rodríguez, Alejandro; Nueno, PedroCase E-92-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingAqueduct is a start up designing and manufacture a medical device to apply cold temperature after esthetic or traumatic surgery. Two MBAs from MIT and IESE and the team they put together are going through initial steps of the venture through medical trials. In parallel they need to raise the funding the company. Different funding for alternatives are evaluated. The location of Aqueduct Medical is San Francisco and the venture is addressed primari...Starting at €8.20
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HR 500 Plus Scanner — Rapid Commercialization or Bust at Kodak
Donald A. PillittereCase IVEY-9B11M117-EMarketing, StrategyThe HR 500 Plus Scanner case examines how, in 2000, the Eastman Kodak Company confronts a drastic change in technology (from traditional to digital photography) that is eroding revenue and margins by double digits in its core film, paper, and chemical business. Matt Giorgio, the worldwide product manager for film scanners, is being pushed by upper management to extend the life of film to provide cash for the painful and less profitable transition...Starting at €8.20